{"id":2273,"date":"2020-11-29T03:46:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T03:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2020-12-03T18:19:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T18:19:37","slug":"a-conversation-with-sir-keith-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/29\/a-conversation-with-sir-keith-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Sir Keith Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A successful British businessman and entrepreneur, Sir Keith has a long career in marketing related businesses.\u00a0His early years in London advertising agencies led to the innovation of Air Miles in the late 1980\u2019s and the development of some of the world\u2019s largest customer loyalty programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2003, Sir Keith was asked by the British Government to lead London\u2019s bid for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which was won in 2005 after beating eight other cities including New York and Paris.\u00a0Sir Keith then established the organization that delivered the 2012 games where he was Deputy Chairman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(Audio 87) Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile and Rick Tittle: Sir Keith Mills, Viveka Captain and Crew, Jeffrey Rutherford\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/486211599?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last 20 years Sir Keith has played leading roles in a number of other major sports teams and organizations, including the British America\u2019s Cup team, the Premier League soccer team, Tottenham Hotspur, and the Invictus Games with Prince Harry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/125R4645-1.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2280\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/125R4645-1.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/125R4645-1.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/125R4645-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1151&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/125R4645-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/125R4645-1.jpg?resize=1366%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1366w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/125R4645-1.jpg?w=1456&amp;ssl=1 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption>England, Southampton, September 14th 2007, On board GBR 75, Team Origin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sir Keith didn\u2019t really start sailing until he was forty and had a growing family.\u00a0 He raced dinghies and chartered boats for family cruising.\u00a0 His first serious racing came when he crewed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clipperroundtheworld.com\/\">Clipper RTW<\/a> race with a young skipper named Alex Thomson in 1999. They won the race and became great friends and Sir Keith helped Alex set up his yacht racing business.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to supporting Alex Thomson for the last 20 years, Sir Keith also pulled together the British America\u2019s Cup team, TEAMORIGIN, and Land Rover BAR, both with Sir Ben Ainslie.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/VG2012Arrival064-1.jpg?resize=1000%2C667&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2279\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/VG2012Arrival064-1.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/VG2012Arrival064-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/VG2012Arrival064-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>By finishing his single-handed, non-stop round-the-world race without assistance in 80 days, 19 hours, 23 minutes and 43 seconds, Alex Thomson (HUGO BOSS) became the fastest British sailor on that route. The Vend\u00e9e Globe is a round-the-world single-handed yacht race, sailed non-stop and without assistance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sir Keith has personally owned and raced a TP52 and a Fast 40 and his current sailing project is the restoration of the Schooner Viveka commissioned and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latitude38.com\/lectronic\/classic-schooner-viveka-relaunched-richmond\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.latitude38.com\/lectronic\/classic-schooner-viveka-relaunched-richmond\/\">launched<\/a> in San Francisco in October 2020. He plans to race Viveka in the not too distant future. He is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalthames.com\/\">Royal Thames Yacht Club.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A successful British businessman and entrepreneur, Sir Keith has a long career in marketing related businesses.\u00a0His early years in London advertising agencies led to the innovation of Air Miles in the late 1980\u2019s and the development of some of the world\u2019s largest customer loyalty programs. In 2003, Sir Keith was asked by the British Government to lead London\u2019s bid for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which was won in 2005 after beating eight other cities including New York and Paris.\u00a0Sir Keith then established the organization that delivered the 2012 games where he was Deputy Chairman. 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